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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-01-07
MISS SO-AND-SO.

The late Professor Morren related once
in cur hearing rebuke which he gave to
proud damsel, which is worth repeating
for tile moral it carries The young lady
was one of his pupils and made herself
practicularly obnoxious by her naughty
and even insolent bearing, displaying her
contempt for all about her so markedly
that it became at last unbearable.
II knew her mother in France said
the professor whose broken English there
is no need OF producing here, 'sand she
was most exquisitely modest and unas-
suming woman But the daughter was So
insoent that she had to have lesson: so
said to her. Will you BE- so good as 10
remain after the lesson? I have some
thing to tell you She stays and in her
haughtiest manner she says 'Yon wish TO
speak to me :?
:. Yes. You are Miss So-and-so?'
:. Yes
g 'You live at No--Beaeon street .
"Yes.
/" And yonr mother is the lovely and
sweet Mrs. So-and-so have met in
France?'
s.Well .
CO. said, YOU are sure there is no
mistake?'
s'No mistake, What do you mean ?
Il am exceedingly surprised that yon
come Of such family and are so well
born
SIR
g 'You think, Mademoiselle, said soft
ening my manner. that haughiiness is
aristoeratic. Now you viii pardon an old
man If remind you that the contrary is
true. have known your mother so long
that dare be frank with you. You have
been very insolent in the class.
50 Insolcnt, Monsieur
Eyes, Mademoiselle. You have mis-
taken this for mark of aristecraey. 40
does the daughter of the Jew moneylender
You would much better copy your mother,
your gentle lady mother
''And | NJ ade her my best bow and left
her TO think about it. And she was good
girl afterwards, very good girl
1t is a pity this wise and shrewdiy-word-
ed repioof could not sink into the hearts OF
many young girl to-day who feolishly
faneies she is asserting the loftiness Of her
social position by an insolence which only
proves that she is not sufficiently sure oil
her standing to cease to be troubled ahout
it. It takes good many generations set
one socially so high that one does not need
to eondescend to any human being
Boston Courier
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-01-07
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

70 do up shirts. take two tablespoonfuls
powdered borax and dissolve in one and
one-half cups Of cold water. The shirts
must not be previously starehed and they
must be perfectly dry. Dip the cuffs, col
then roll up tight in dry cloth and let
them lie two hours. Then rub off and iron.
They Will be like pastebeard aud have
nice gloss.
To take the '.ishy' smell from your
skillet after frying fish put soap and water
in the skillet and let it boil for ten min
utes.
When tea has been stepped in boiling
the valuable constituents are extracted
At the end Of ten minutes the leaves are
almost entirely exhausted Prolonged in
fusion gives no additional strength to the
volatiIization, of the flaverng principles.
Hard waters are to be preferred to soft
waters in the teapot, as the hard waters
dissolve less of the tannin out Of the leaves.
The bearing of these laboratory results on
the art of making good cup of tea is OBJ
vous
\ simple remedy for neuralgia is to APP
ply grated horse-radish prepared the same
as for table use to the temple when the
face or head is affected, or to the wrist
when the pain is in the arm or shoulder.
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NO. so.

expenses beyond those of her own and the
children's apparel, according to her idea of
| propriety; and what is really trihe in the
way of mis- own expenditure is vast sum
of money to her Women do not expect
great deal, spea king of them in the mass,
and not of the scattered few who are the
children Of luxury. We have known a
wife to burst into tears of joy at being
given twenty-five dollars TO prepare her
family of four with clothing for the sum-
mer, going without anything new herself:
We have known one to take the money
given her by brother for a needed article
of clothing, and to buy with it barrel of
-four rather than tell her husband the
flour had come to an end and we have
known another to cut up every gown but
one that she had, in order to keep her girls
fit for school, while the husband appeared
to know nothing of what was going on, and
out by day, growing cid before her time,
knowing and seeing almost nothing of the
world, through the want of decent apparel.
And if these are isolated instances of their
kind, it is only because most husbands are
not really mean, although they may have
to be asked fer what is wanted, and then
may give it as gift, considering them
selves generous, while the wives feel that
they have right to the necessaries of life,
il no more, and that It should be theirs
without asking. But in the most frequent
case there is no expressed community of
interest, no saying or implying that there
is just SO much available income, and how
can it best be used; but in the majority of
instances, If the wife wants an article of
any sort to wear. she has to appeal to him.
giving him 4 sta tement of her wishes and
reasons, and convincing him of the necess-
ty of it; she has to do The same if it is
only a new pair Of boots; and at the
thought of new bonnet she has to dread
hearing homily on female vanity and the |
idleness of fashions, while she would be
surprised at herself if she had fifty-cent |
piece in her pocket with which TO answer
a call of charity or buy spool of silk. |
Nothing could have been devised to make |
her more surely feel her inferiority, or to
teach it to the children who see money |
deled out to her as it is doled out |
to them. If, under such circumstances,
the wife supplies herself with small |
change in a surreptitious way, fitch
ing from his pockets dime or nickel at |
n ci,a af ~ r14f 10 rid
in the street car without asking, and il by |
means of that it happens that his children
are the children of a thief, and are perhaps |
born kleptomaniacs, he has himself to
thank for the basencss that has been
achieved and his habit Of making
the handling of money the criterion Of
sense and authority Harper's Bazdr.
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The appropriated observer might we'll
ask what manner of a woman is it that
man has married, when he has SO poor an
opinion of her that he does not believe she
W oald feel his interests as keenly as he
himself feels them, does not perceive that
their interests are mutual and that they
are working to the same end; does not
want to save a dollar for the common good
as much as he does, and is not willing to
work as hard and go without as much in
her own way. The unprejudiced observer
might also ask If the husband, who is so
close with his purse, considering il his, and
not the family purse, is actuated by no
meaner motive than distrust; if his own
outside and purely selfish pleasures would
not be interfered with in the abstraction
Of funds If the wife were allowed to spend
as she pleased. She has no cigars to buy,
no drinks to take, no billiards to play, no
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-01-07

GOOD HEALTH.
Gynnasiie Exercises and Massage Treat
mcnf 10 Keep You Well.

The massage treatment consists in pinch
ing the muscles and twisting them this way
and that. going from head TO foot, all over
the body. The patient lies naked upon a
slab, and the masscur or operator performs
his pow-wow upon him. 1t is delightful
to the patient after it is over, but exhaustng
to the operator \ machine HIS lately
been invented to take the place Of hand
manipulation. One Of the New York SIMS
young men tried it as follows:
The principles OF massage treatment
have been known ever since cannibals
were discovered kneadng each others
stomach to help the digestion of big din
ners but the process was never so popular
as it is now. The reported treatment of
the president by a masseur has given the
business boom, and massage artists are
in a fair way to get rich.
But while the masseur is wearing the
flesh off fat people, he is himself losing
strength and flesh by the hard and slow
work Necessity has just become the
mother of another invention. whereby a
sort of massage treatment is applied by
machinery run by steam.
The principal machine consists of two
rubber pads about five inches long and two
inches wide, placed parallel to each other,
and fastened so that they adjust themselves
TO any part Of the body. They yibrate
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is, like shoe brush,
I, 200 times a minute. The patient with
ont removing his clothes, lies down on
lounge, and the masseur applies his rub
bers without exerting his own muscles
much 4 reporter tried it. The masseur
clapped the machine on the region of his
liver, and then moved it slowly up to
his lungs, giving the stomach such two
horsepower shaking up that good break
fast was nearly frightened away. The mas
sear said he could do as as much work
with the machine in five minutes as the
hand masseur could do in an hour.
In another corner of the room there is
machine on the floor which keeps several
bootjacks webbing in all directions. An
invalid was sitting in chair before the
machine, with one foot in a jack, which
kept the toe seesawing with the heel. with
the ankle joint as pivot. This was
another style of massage.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-01-07

proud to have folks know be was our min
meeting was out. And when some one
congratulated him at hearing such preach
ing all the time, he took it just exactly as
if he'd always considered Mr. Miles the
greatest preacher going.
We didn't speak word for more than
half the way home. and then John said
81 say, Maria, there's sach a thing as
going farther and faring worse
"Well,' said I, ''if that's what you
mean, we've been faring just about the
same
NO. said he, that isn't what |
mean, and after awhile he said:
''Maria, how much bigger salary ought
we to raise for preacher
| was right up and down discouraged to
hear him go back to that, for I'd been all
the time hoping he'd been thinking pretty
much as | had But didn't say anything,
for I've often seen it's no use to oppose
John when he's worked up over a thing,
but to try quiet word or two afterward.
He went on
Yes, it ought to be done. Things need
stirring up, and I'm going to stir EN-"
He .erked the lines SO Prancer gave
jump. That old parsonage wants lots of
repairing. I'll talk to the men about it,
and then couldn't some of you women
folks see about new carpets and papering
and things?"
choking i'll my threat as I thought of do
ing it for folks | didn't care for, and it
came right face to face before me the idea
OF eur pastor going to seek a home among
strangers. had a longing in my heart to
do better by him and his than ever I'd
done yet, and feeling that he could do
more for us now that he was getting lit
tic older, than he could do as young
man. But didn't say anything, and in
deed. John didn't say anything, and in
deed. John didn't give me any chance, for
he kept right on speaking louder and more
excitedly:
''Ies, Maria, veil set things humming.
We won't stop till we've done the thing
up right and then we'll wind up with
rousing house warming-and we'll let him
know before We get through that he's
worth ten times more to us than all the
young ones that ever lived. Get up,
Prancer.'
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-01-07
VOL. Ill.
NIGHT IN ST. PETERS.

Low ON the marble floor lie:
| am alone;
Though friendly voices whisper nigh.
And foreign crowds are passing by
am alone.
Great hymns float through
The Swallowed aisles, hear slow
Refrain, Forgive them. for they know
Not what they do
with tender joy all others thrill:
have but tears;
The false priests voices, high and shrill,
Eeiterate the "Peace, good will
have but tears.
hear anew
The nail and scoutge: then comes the low,
sad words, s'fergive them for they know
Not what they do
Close by my side the poor souls kneel
tura away:
Multiplying looks at me they steal;
They think. because do not feel
| turn away.
All, if they knew,
How, following them where'er they go,
hear Forgive them, for they know
Not what they do
Above the organs sweetest strains
| hear the groans
ofprisoners. who lie in chains.
So near, and in such mortal pains
hear the groans.
But Christ walks through
The dungeons of St. Angelo.
And says, 'Forgive them. for they know
Not what they do
And now the music sinks to sghs;
The lights grow dim:
The Pastorella's melodies
In lingering echoes float and rise:
The lights grow dim
More clear and true,
In this sweet silence seem to flow
The words, "Forgive them, for they know
Not what they do"
The dawns swing incense, silver gray:
The night is past;
Now comes. triumphant, Gods fun day;
No priest, no church, can bar its way:
The night is past;
How ON this blue
OF Gods great banner, blaze and glow
The words, "Forgiye them. for they know
Not what they do
Helen HHm JoekSoa.
Rome, Haty, Dee, &c, 1868.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-01-07

The young men Of the colleges are com
ing out for Prohibition AT Delaware.
Ohio TIE students are coming to the help
Of the Third Party. Al the State lnisef-
sity OF Michigan the action is more pro-
nounced; Lafayette College, Easion, Pa
and oberlin O., University each have ids-
awake Prohibition Clubs. In the Mime
sofa State University club has been Or
eanixed that promises to he tnil team ~
this grand work
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-01-07

BY j. NJ. :.
You must get up where the world can
see you before it can appreciate you. keep
in obscuri.y and the very good you would
do dies with you. And herein is seen the
difference between righteous and unrghte-
Gus ambition. Unrighteous ambition wants
to stand clear and permanent in the eyes
of the world for the sake of the vulgar
glory of it, But righteous ambition wants
to stand out in The eyes ofthe world for the
sake of the good it may do, for the sake
of the helpful message its lips may utter
And herein differs the glory of Satan from
the glory of God. Satan's glory is self
glory, its beginning, middle and end is
self But Gods glery if for the good He
may do to HIS children, its beginning,
middle and end is self-forgetting sacrifice
for the good, not of friends alone, but Of
enemies as well.
x#x
Faithful unto death is the souls highest
reach unto fidelity From that it rises M
into the glory of eternal life, and finds it
self at home with the faithful God. With
death and the beyond | have nothing to
do. They are in my Fathers hands. Mine
is to be true and noble and repenting now.
His, it is to reward what faithfnlness has
found me ont in the ways of my service to
my brother.
x*#
Forgiveness is the highest wisdom, for
it wins our enemy into staunchest, firm
est friend; but revenge is the lowest isol-
ishness filling the heart of our enemy with
deeper, deadlier hatred.
**x
4 man must have something outside vi
himself to lean upon. lie must have a
will upon which to rest with the hand OF
obedience And this authority is the truth
of the New Testament; and this will is the
will of God revealed in Christ Jesus. Who
does not receive this truth and rest upon
this will has a weary, wasted life Tat
never laughs ont from the bright JOY OF
blessed certainty.
x*x
When the storm cloud of grief breaks
into the rain of tears the tender lilies OF
the soul are watered unto swinging their
eensers of perfume.
The wings by which grief flies to the
bosom of God for consolation is faith
.ieweled with tears.
Who is assured of Gods love has no
anxiety for tomorrow, and who has no
anxiety for tomorrow has a generous
strength ont of which to do his whole
christian duty.
Witty eternity assured unto us we have
strength to give our unreserved time unto
doing Gods will.
JOY is strength, but there is no real joy
to the man who is not at peace with God.
To do is to know.
x*#
Obedience to the truth is the shuttle that,
carving the silken thread of faith back
ward and forth across our life, weases our
garment of righteousness in pattern OF the
life of Jesus.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-01-07

Minutes are Gods messengers, dropping
from their wings the dews Of heaven on
thirsty souls One writer calls minutes
Gods bees ringing nectar from the How
ers of paradise which they leave with them
that wait for His mercies, and then lily
away only to be succeeded by others. but
!, il only to them who wait for the nectar
and the dew that the minutes give their
treasures. 1t is only they WHO hunger
and thirst after righteousness that are
filed - Royce's Saturday Ansit.
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PATENT MEDICINES

Heb1obose to KEEP a stock Of
aHMe 0a,1ons Pob,7etuy Weai-
zines that there is any demava
far, and 7s4H fom time to time,
add 10 iouf sfofk all suchthat may
be cuqui,-ed for. Ne annex a
fvzce list, and .fau furnish any
brocava6le articles az this line
at aboH tie same acreage Of Price
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That we can, in connection with the MONITOR,
secure You a subscription TO any paper or
magazine published, Mt much lower price
inan the regular rate, and you will do we'll TO
let us know If you are contemplating sub
Scripiion to any publication.
THE MONITOR, Woodstown, n. j.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-01-07

BE sure to keep your dish-cloth clean as
some physicians claim diphtheria III s'a''
,r,,,n usin greasy dish-cloths.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-01-07

We're headquarters for quilting mate
rials-iust opened $500 yards of best stand
ard calico at 5 cts per yard. Quilting .eo-
ton. weighed on the scales hen soia,at ~
IA and i5ets per lb --E. b. Humphreys y
Co. m
--4---.s 44--44ss- ---~s se7 10
All kinds Of crockery and Qneensw,a,f '',;
We are selling lots OF goods OF TINS knna
now that we've room to show them q, on'
old stand at the eorner.-E. o. nun
phreys 4 Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-01-07
To do is to know.

Obedience to the truth is the shuttle that,
carving the silkcn thread of faith back
ward and forth across our life, weafes our
garment of righteousness in pattern OF the
life of Jesus.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-12-23
HOW TO COOK AND CURE A COOK.


ablaze, and stove and all are blown in air to
serve this stupid craze. With clothes on fire
and tortured limbs a cook is cooked in
deed, but certain cure in such case is
the real friend in need. For burns and
scalds and blisters too, it cures them to
perfection, but be sure to use it every time
in accordance with direction. Yes,
strictly in accordance with directions.
Scores of people daily brought in con-
tact with heat, steam, boiling wafer and
combustibles are hourly injured by some
mishap in the nature of Il burn or scald,
and thousands have been cured Of such
BY the best known remedy for the cure of
pain. The principle of how it works ex-
plains itself. 1t acts as 4 counter-irritant
on the surface injured, gently drawing out
the heat caused by the burn, while it
soothes the pain, helping nature in the
healing process, and y cure follows. 1t is
q specific for pains of this kind and should
be kept handy where fire and steam are.
But as precaution to its use where
serious burns or scalds occur, ard that
suffering may not be intensified through
ignorance, read carefully directions for il:
use accompanying every bottle. Tn, II.
sands who testify to being cured Of burns
and scalds have been so guided, and praise
without stint its virtues by which they
nave been cured. "Gilbertvil!e. Black.
hawk count J, Ia, Feb. II, 1657.-Dear Sir:
i have used your st. Jacobs Oil for burns
and bruises, and 1 can say it does its wori;
as recommended to do. | always keep il
in the house and recommend it to my
neighbors. Yours truly, W. Fl. Schroeder
kFairmount, Neb., Feb. Z, 1S87.-We find
St. Jacobs Oil as good foF burns Or scal,ls
as for bites" wexford, Allegheny county
Pa., Feb. Z, 1s87.-Have been using ST
Jacobs Oil for many years for burns and
find it good house doctor" Very truly
yours, A. Maskey.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-12-23
removal

removal
In addition to the seven cases refer
red to and the families to which they
, have been assigned, there have been
apple ations officially considered OF
l3 children for homes, andon theother
hand, besides incidental appeals near.
ly as many for children by those wish
ing to receive them. Much embar.
rassment occurs adjusting the require
mems of both sides, which results Of
ten in negotiations failing altogether,
but no child entirely without protect
iou is suffered by the Society to re-
main unprovided for
Specific work is cooperating with
Directors of the Poor anc several of
our children have come from them.
Ofcourse in such cases the Poor Board
is not relieved of expense until per-
manent home has been secured, the
agency of this Society through
the State having been found
a ready mea1s of attain
ing this result. Some details of our
work are given; to the future we leave
the estimate of the good done, ,remem
bering for our encouragement that
when women of old brought little chill
dren to Jesus, desiring His blessing,
that He rebuked them not.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-12-23
A Christmas Song.

Rejoice with US, it's Christmas-t;de,
Come, young ard old, from far and wide
Our Christmas Tree blooms all a.light
This peaceful, hallowed night.
Look in the manger, poor and bare,
Behold the Christ-child lying there.
And DER it, singing sweet and clear,
The blessed angels hear.
For you, all people, great and small,
A Saviour's born, in yonder stall,
In David's city, Christ the Lord,
According to His Word.
Begone. all anxious care, to-day,
Sin, Devil world and death away,
Look up, my soul, and greet Him. See
Emmanuel GENES to thee!
The shepherds haste, joyful band,
Before the manger shrine to stand,
To find, to worship Him they sought.
o see, what God hath wrought!
Such wondrous love to US hath shown,
Hath stopped to make our griefs His own,
And, to His word of promise true,
Doth Paradise renew.
Then raise the song, the glad refrain,
The angel-choir begins the strain,
Whoe'er can sing, must Join our lay
This blessed Christmas day.
To God, enthroned in highest heaven.
By us be praise and glory giveny
Let peace on earth, to men goodwill,
Abide among us still!